I have (finally) decided to give Debian 8 a try, after some mucking around I installed. THe install medium was an Debian 8.3 i386 DVD, and was upgraded from the net. The install of the kernel produces the following error..... -----------------cut here------------------------ Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120+deb8u3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae mkinitramfs: failed to determine device for / mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most, check: grep -r MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools/ Error please report bug on initramfs-tools Include the output of 'mount' and 'cat /proc/mounts' update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae with 1. dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u10) ... Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae initramfs-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -----------------cut here---------------------- Now it actually works OK, the ramdisk image was installed correctly. What it has done though it prevents the kernel from being upgraded. I have sort of got around this by compiling my own kernel (I do this as a matter of course anyway), this of course required me to dump systemd as it WILL NOT work with a standard kernel from kernel.org. Lindsay